'One frustrated modeller observed a lack of ethnic and gender diversity among scientists recruited to Sage, and a failure to stress-test assumptions; one Downing Street adviser, a rarity for having attended a state school, lamented that these missing perspectives created “problems in decision-making, policy development and culture”.
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